Curriculum Vita
Frank
D. Marks, Jr.
Research
Meteorologist and Director
NOAA/AOML
Hurricane Research Division
Miami,
FL 33149
305-361-4321
Frank.Marks@noaa.gov
Date of Birth: 10/24/51 Place
of Birth: West Point, NY
Education:
Belknap College Meteorology B.S. 1973
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Meteorology M.S. 1975
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Meteorology Sc.D. 1981
Research Meteorologist July
1980 to present
Director February
2003 to present
Hurricane Research Division
NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological
Laboratory, Miami, FL
Adjunct Associate Professor September
1993 to present
Department of Meteorology and Physical
Oceanography
Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric
Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Fellow January
1997 to present
Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric
Studies
Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric
Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Senior Fellow July
1997 to present
Joint Institute for Marine
and Atmospheric Research
University of Hawaii at
Manoa, Honolulu, HI
Accomplishments:
Specialized in radar remote
sensing (ground-based, airborne, and spaceborne) of tropical cyclones and
mesoscale convective systems to understand the storm kinematic and precipitation
structure.
Field Program Experience
1980-present NOAA Hurricane Field Program (over
160 research missions in tropical cyclones)
1992-93 TOGA
COARE (Solomon Islands)
1991 Convection
and Precipitation Experiment (Florida)
1991 Tropical
Experiment in Mexico (Acapulco, Mexico)
1987 Equatorial
Mesoscale Experiment (Australia)
1986 Genesis
of Atlantic Lows Experiment (North Carolina)
1985 Preliminary
Regional Experiment for STORM-Central (Kansas)
1978-79 Winter
Monsoon Experiment (Malaysia)
1974 GATE
(Africa)
Honors and Awards:
2005 NOAA AdministratorÕs Award
2005 OFCM Richard H. Hagemeyer Award at the 59th
Interdepartmental hurricane Conference
2005 USWRP Joint Hurricane Testbed Outstanding
Contributor Award
2003 NOAA Diversity Council Spectrum Achievement Award
for Managers
2001 NOAA TECH 2002 award for best wireless application
for development of satellite-cell based WLAN for NOAA WP-3D aircraft
1997 US Department of Commerce Silver Medal for
performance as the Research Mission Manager for the NOAA High Altitude Jet
procurement
1992 US Department of Commerce Gold Medal for Hurricane
Research Division's Performance in Hurricane Andrew (group award)
1989 Distinguished Authorship Award, National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Research Laboratories
AMS Activities:
2000-present Fellow, American Meteorological
Society
1984-1991 Committee on
Radar Meteorology, American Meteorological Society (Chairman 1987-1991)
1980-present member, Greater Miami Chapter of
the American Meteorological Society (secretary 1981, chairman 1982)
1973-present member, American Meteorological
Society
1971-1973 student member,
American Meteorological Society
Professional
Activities:
2005-present NCAR EOL
External Advisory Committee
2004 NOAA/National
Weather Service Executive Leadership Seminar
2003-present Research Mission Manager for the NOAA
G-IVSP tail Doppler radar procurement
2002-2005
USWRP
Joint Hurricane Testbed Steering Committee
1999-present NASA TRMM (Precipitation) Science
Team
1999 Review
Committee for NASA/GSFC Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch
1998 UCAR
Advanced Study Program (ASP) Summer Colloquium on Hurricanes at Landfall
(co-organizer)
1997 USWRP
Landfalling Hurricanes Workshop Organizing Team (Co-Chairman)
1996 USWRP
Prospectus Development Team #5: Landfalling tropical cyclones, (Co-Chairman)
1996-2001 North American Atmospheric
Observing System (NAOS), Test and Evaluation Working Group
1996 NSF
Review panel for NCAR's Atmospheric Technology Division, (Chairman)
1995 Committee
of Visitors, Review of the NSF Division of Atmospheric Sciences' Lower
Atmospheric Research Section
1993-1997 Research Mission Manager for the
NOAA mid-size jet procurement
1992-1994 Observing Facility Advisory Panel,
NCAR/ATD (Chairman 1994)
Publications
(Books and Refereed Journals)
Willoughby,
H. E., F. D. Marks, and E. Rappaport, 2007: Hurricane Forecasting: The
State of the Art, ASCE Nat. Haz. Rev. (accepted)
Marks, F. D., P. G. Black, M. T. Montgomery,
and R. W. Burpee 2007: Structure of the eye and eyewall of Hurricane Hugo (1989).
Mon. Wea. Rev.,
(accepted)
Lonfat, M., R. Rogers, F. D. Marks,
and T. Marchok, 2006: The Effect of Shear and Topography on Rainfall
Forecasting with R-CLIPER. Mon. Wea. Rev., (accepted)
Aberson, S. D., M. L. Black, R. A. Black, R.
W. Burpee, J. J. Cione, C. W. Landsea, and F. D. Marks, 2006: Twenty-five
years of tropical cyclone research with the NOAA P-3 aircraft. Bull. Amer.
Meteor. Soc., 87, 1039–1055.
S. S. Chen, J. A. Knaff, and F. D. Marks,
2006: Effects of environmental vertical wind shear and storm motion on tropical
cyclone rainfall asymmetries deduced from TRMM Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 3190-3208.
Esteban-Fernandez, D., J. R. Carswell, S.
Frasier, P. S. Chang, P. G. Black, F. D. Marks, 2006: Dual-polarized C-
and Ku-band ocean backscatter response to hurricane-force winds. J. Geophys.
Res., 111, C08013
Aberson, S. D., J. P. Dunion, and F. D.
Marks, 2006: A photograph of a wavenumber two asymmetry in the eye of
Hurricane Erin. . J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 387-391
Hood,
R. E., D. Cecil, F. J. LaFontaine, R. Blakeslee, D. Mach, G. Heymsfield, F. D.
Marks, and E. Zipser, 2006: Classification of tropical oceanic precipitation
using high altitude aircraft microwave and electric field measurements. J.
Atmos. Sci.,
63,
218-233
Jiang, H., P. G. Black, E. Zipser, F. D.
Marks, and E. W. Uhlhorn, 2006: Validation of rain rate estimation in
hurricanes from stepped frequency microwave radiometer: Algorithm correction
and error analysis. J. Atmos. Sci.,
63, 252-267.
Kakar,
R., F. D. Marks, G. M. McFarquhar, and R. E. Hood, 2006: Preface. J.
Atmos. Sci.,
63,
3-4.
McFarquhar, G. M., H.
Zhang, J. Dudhia, J. B. Halverson, G. M. Heymsfield, R. Hood, and F. D.
Marks, 2006. Factors affecting the evolution of Hurricane Erin and the
distributions of hydrometeors: Role of microphysical processes. J. Atmos.
Sci., 63, 127-150.
Molinari, J. P. Dodge, D. Vollaro, K. L.
Corbosiero, and F. D. Marks, 2006: Mesoscale aspects of the downshear
reformation of a tropical cyclone. Accepted for publication in J. Atmos.
Sci.,63, 341-354.
Esteban-Fernandez, D., E. Kerr, A. Castells,
J. Carswell, S. Frasier, P. Chang, P. G. Black, and F. D. Marks, 2005:
IWRAP: The Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler for remote sensing of the
ocean and the atmospheric boundary layer within tropical cyclones. IEE. Trans.
Geosc. Rem. Sens.,
43,
1775-1787.
Morrison, I., S. Businger, F. D. Marks,
P. P. Dodge, and J. Businger, 2005: An observational case for the prevalence of
roll vortices in the hurricane boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 2662-2673.
Lonfat,
M., F. D. Marks, S. Chen, 2004: Precipitation distribution in tropical
cyclones using the tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM) microwave imager:
A global perspective. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 1645-1660.
Harasti, P. R., C. J. McAdie, P. P. Dodge,
W.-C. Lee, J. Tuttle, S. T. Murillo, and F. D. Marks, 2004: Real-time implementation of single-Doppler radar analysis
methods for tropical cyclones: Algorithm improvements and use with WSR-88D
display data. Wea.
Forecasting, 19, 219-239.
Marks,
F. D., 2003: State of the Science: Radar View of Tropical Cyclones. Radar and Atmospheric Science: A Collection of
Essays in Honor of David Atlas, Edited by R. M Wakimoto and R. C. Srivastava, Meteorological Monographs, 52, AMS,
Boston, MA, 33-74.
Marks, F. D., 2003:
Hurricanes. Handbook of Weather and Climate: Dynamics, Climate, Physical
Meteorology, Weather Systems, and Measurements. Edited by T. D. Potter and
B. R. Coleman, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Hobokan, NJ, 641-676.
Marks, F. D., 2003:
Hurricanes. Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, Elsevier Science Ltd.,
London, UK, 942-966.
Lee, W.-C., F. D. Marks, and C.
Walther, 2003: Airborne Doppler radar data analysis workshop, 13-16 March 2000.
Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.
84,
1063-1075.
Kollias, P., B. A. Albrecht, and F. D.
Marks, 2003: Cloud radar observations of vertical drafts and microphysics
in convective rain. J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4053.
Walsh, E. J., C. W. Wright, D. Vandemark,
W. B. Krabill, A. W. Garcia, S. H. Houston, S. T. Murillo, M. D. Powell, P. G.
Black, and F. D. Marks, 2002: Hurricane directional wave spectrum
spatial variation at landfall. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 1667–1684.
Kollias,
P., B. A. Albrecht, and F. D. Marks: 2002: Why Mie? Bull. Amer.
Meteor. Soc.,
83,
1471-1483.
Black,
M. L., J. F. Gamache, F. D. Marks, C. E. Samsury, and H. E. Willoughby,
2002: Eastern Pacific Hurricanes Jimena of 1991 and Olivia of 1994:The effects
of vertical shear on structure and intensity. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 2291-2312.
Wright, C. W., E. J. Walsh, D. Vandemark, W.
B. Krabill, A. W. Garcia, S. H. Houston, M. D. Powell, P. G. Black, and F.
D. Marks, 2001: Hurricane directional wave spectrum spatial variation in
the open ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 2472–2488.
Kollias, P., B. A. Albrecht, and F. D.
Marks, 2001: Raindrop sorting induced by convective updrafts. Geophys.
Res. Letters,
28,
2787-2790.
Lee, W.-C., B. J.-D. Jou, P.-L. Chang, and F.D.
Marks, 2000: Tropical cyclone kinematic structure retrieved from single
Doppler radar observations. Part III: Evolution and structure of Typhoon Alex
(1987). Mon. Wea. Rev.,
128,
3982-4001.
Reasor, P. D., M. T.
Montgomery, F. D. Marks, J. F. Gamache, 2000: Low-wavenumber structure
and evolution of the hurricane inner core observed by airborne dual-Doppler
radar. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 1653-1680.
Lee, W.-C., and F. D.
Marks, 2000: Tropical cyclone kinematic structure retrieved from single
Doppler radar observations. Part II: The GBVTD-simplex center finding
algorithm. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 1925-1936.
Atlas, D., C. W. Ulbrich, F.
D. Marks, R. A. Black, P. T. Willis, and C. E. Samsury, 2000: Partitioning
tropical oceanic convective and stratiform rains by draft strength. J.
Geophys. Res.,
105,
2259-2267.
Donnelly, W.J., J. R.
Carswell, R. E. McIntosh, P. S. Chang, J. Wilkerson, F. D. Marks, and P.
G. Black, 1999: Revised ocean backscatter models at C and Ku band under
high-wind conditions. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 11485-11497.
Hellin, J., M. Haig, and F.
D. Marks, 1999: Rainfall characteristics of hurricane Mitch. Nature, 399, 316
Dodge, P. P., R. W. Burpee,
and F. D. Marks, 1999: The kinematic structure of a hurricane with sea
level pressure less than 900 mb. Mon. Wea. Rev.,127, 987-1004.
Elsberry, R., and F. D.
Marks, 1999: The hurricane landfall workshop summary. Bull. Amer.
Meteor. Soc.,
80,
683-685.
Atlas, D., C. W. Ulbrich, F.
D. Marks, and C. Williams, 1999: Systematic variation of drop size and
radar-rainfall relations. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 6155-6170.
Elsberry, R., and F. D.
Marks, 1999: U.S. Weather Research Program Hurricane Landfall Workshop
Report. Tech. Note NCAR/TN-442, 40 pp. [Available on-line at
http://uswrp.mmm.ucar.edu/ uswrp.html.]
Marks, F. D., and L. K.
Shay, 1998: Landfalling tropical cyclones: Forecast problems and associated
research opportunities. Report of the Fifth Prospectus Development Team to the
U.S. Weather Research Program. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 79, 305-323.
Black, M. L., R. W. Burpee,
and F. D. Marks, 1996: Vertical motion characteristics of tropical
cyclones determined with airborne Doppler radial velocities. J. Atmos. Sci.., 53, 1887-1909.
Roux, F., and F. D.
Marks, 1996: Extended velocity track display (EVTD): an improved processing
method for Doppler radar observations of tropical cyclones. J. Atmos. and
Ocean. Tech.,
13,
875-899.
Yuter, S. E., R. A. Houze,
B. F. Smull, F. D. Marks, J. R. Daugherty, and S. R. Brodzik, 1995: TOGA
COARE aircraft mission summary images: An electronic atlas, Bull. Amer.
Meteor. Soc.,
76,
319-333.
Gamache, J. F., F. D.
Marks, and F. Roux, 1995: Comparison of three airborne Doppler sampling
techniques with airborne in situ wind observations in Hurricane Gustav (1990). J.
Atmos. and Ocean. Tech., 12, 171-181.
Burpee, R. W., S. D.
Aberson, P. G. Black. M. DeMaria, J. L. Franklin, J. S. Griffin, S. H. Houston,
J. Kaplan, S. J. Lord, F. D. Marks, M. D. Powell, and H. E. Willoughby,
1994: Real-time guidance provided by NOAA's Hurricane Research Division to
forecasters during Hurricane Emily of 1993. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 1765-1783.
Lee, W.-C., P. P. Dodge, F.
D. Marks, and P. H. Hildebrand, 1994: Mapping of airborne Doppler radar
data. J. Atmos. and Ocean. Tech., 11, 572-578.
Lee, W.-C., F.D. Marks,
and R.E. Carbone, 1994: Velocity Track Display—A technique to extract
real-time tropical cyclone circulations using a single airborne Doppler radar. J.
Atmos. and Ocean. Tech., 11, 337-356.
Gamache, J. F., R. A.
Houze, and F. D. Marks, 1993: Dual-Aircraft investigation of the inner
core of Hurricane Norbert: Part III: Water budget. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 3221-3243.
Franklin, J. L., S. J.
Lord, S. E. Feuer, and F. D. Marks, 1993: The kinematic structure of
Hurricane Gloria (1985) determined from nested analyses of dropwindsonde and
Doppler radar data. Mon. Wea. Rev., 121, 2433-2451.
Marks, F. D., D. Atlas, and
P. T. Willis, 1993: Probability-matched reflectivity-rainfall relations for a
hurricane from aircraft observations. J. Appl. Meteor., 32, 1134-1141.
Marks, F. D., R. A. Houze,
and J. F. Gamache, 1992: Dual-Aircraft investigation of the inner core of
Hurricane Norbert: Part I: Kinematic structure. J. Atmos. Sci., 49, 919-942.
Houze, R. A., F. D.
Marks, and R. A. Black, 1992: Dual-Aircraft investigation of the inner core
of Hurricane Norbert: Part II: Mesoscale Distribution of Ice Particles. J.
Atmos. Sci.,
49,
943-962.
Griffin, J. S., R. W.
Burpee, F. D. Marks, And J. L. Franklin, 1992: Real-time airborne
analysis of aircraft data supporting operational hurricane forecasting. Wea.
Forecasting,
7,
480-490.
Marks, F. D., 1989:
Meteorological radar observations of tropical weather systems. Chapt. 25a, Radar
in Meteorology,
D. Atlas (Ed.), AMS, Boston, MA, 401-425.
Franklin, J. L., S. J.
Lord, and F. D. Marks, 1988: Dropwindsonde and radar observations of the
eye of Hurricane Gloria (1985). Mon. Wea. Rev., 116, 1237-1244.
Marks, F. D., and R. A.
Houze, 1987: Inner core structure of Hurricane Alicia from airborne Doppler
radar observations. J. Atmos. Sci., 44, 1296-1317.
Bluestein, H. B., and F.
D. Marks, 1987: On the structure of the eyewall of Hurricane Diana (1984):
Comparison of radar and visual characteristics. Mon. Wea. Rev., 115, 2542-2552.
Marks, F. D., 1985:
Evolution and structure of precipitation in Hurricane Allen (1980). Mon.
Wea. Rev.,
113,
909-930.
Willoughby, H. E., F. D.
Marks, and R. J. Feinberg, 1984; Stationary and moving convective bands in
hurricanes. J. Atmos. Sci., 22, 3189-3211.
Marks, F. D., and R. A.
Houze, 1984: Airborne Doppler radar observations in Hurricane Debby. Bull.
Amer. Meteor. Soc.,
65,
569-582.
Barnes, G. M., E. J.
Zipser, D .P. Jorgensen, and F. D. Marks, 1983: Mesoscale and convective
structure of a hurricane rainband. J. Atmos. Sci., 40, 2125-2137.
Parrish, J. R., R. W.
Burpee, F. D. Marks, and R. Grebe, 1982: Rainfall patterns observed by
digitized radar during the landfall of Hurricane Frederic (1979). Mon. Wea.
Rev., 110, 1933-1944.
Houze, R. A., S. G. Geotis,
F. D. Marks, D. D. Churchill, and P. H. Herzegh, 1981: Comparison of
airborne and land based radar measurements of precipitation during Winter
MONEX. J. Appl. Meteor., 20, 772-783.
Houze, R. A., S. G. Geotis,
F. D. Marks, and A. K. West, 1981: Winter monsoon convection in the
vicinity of North Borneo; Part I: Structure and time variation of the clouds
and precipitation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 109, 1595-1614.
Marks, F. D., and P. M.
Austin, 1979: Effects of the New England coastal front on the distribution of
precipitation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 107, 53-67.
Mower, R. N., G. L. Austin,
A. K. Betts, C. Gautier, R. Grossman, J. Kelly, F. D. Marks, and D. W.
Martin, 1978: A case study of GATE convective activity. Atmos., 17, 46-59.